VINCENT'S ORGANISMS: IN CHRONIC SINUSITIS, OSTEOMYELITIS OF FRONTAL BONE, ORBITAL CELLULITIS, MENINGITIS AND PULMONARY GANGRENE: REPORT OF A CASE | Semantic Scholar (2024)

Three cases of unilateral conjunctivitis with canalicular involvement of long duration are described, one of which was associated with infection with both spirochetes and fusiform bacilli; the other two, with only fus Uniform Bacilli.

Polymicrobial osteomyelitis resulted most frequently from spread of infection from a contiguous focus or occurred in the patient with peripheral vascular insufficiency or neuropathy, however, the hematogenous route can produce polymicrobial disease.

The various secondary intracranial infectious lesions constitute some of the more common types of infectious lesions and their relationship to Intracranial Disease is investigated.

Three patients are described in whom a putrid breath odor was the only or fist manifestation of anaerobic infection of the lung, in whom Fever, productive cough, and pleuritic pain were not initally present.

The presentation and management of a case of ulcerative periodontitis in a patient with a topical cocaine habit is presented.

Two patients with putrid ethmoiditis are reported, in which these anrerobes appeared to be the underlying agents.

The following case is of more than usual interest, because of the rarity of occurrence of this condition (only one previous case having been mentioned, 1 to my knowledge) and the ease with which the diagnosis can be made and confirmed, if only the condition is kept in mind.

This paper will attempt to furnish a background for a discussion of infections of a putrid and gangrenous character for which these organisms appear to be commonly responsible, and present data concerning their more common normal habitats about the body.

The organism is frequently referred to in the German literature as the Plant-Vincent bacillus, while to the French and English writers it is known as the bacilli of Vincent or B. fusiformis.

The organism now described has been found during the early stages of acute coryza, while the discharge is mucoid in character, and has been observed in all of the cases of acute rhinitis studied.

This study has as its origin an obscure clinical case of generalized infection with a fuso-spirillary organism and will fall within the scope of the series of studies being at present conducted, which it is hoped will prove advantageous to a more fundamental understanding of their bacteriology.

Before a serological study of fusiform bacilli could be undertaken, methods had to be developed both for the rapid cultivation of large amounts of these organisms, and for their rapid isolation from very impure environments.

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